Max, a seven-year-old Corgi Spaniel mix and Luke were waiting on coffee outside of Joe Bar after CHS got a peak at the inside of the under-construction new home of the Mexican Consulate. Max, while adorable, was only interested in meeting on his terms. Originally from California, he made his way to Seattle and is kind of a circus dog. Like, “if you throw a balloon up, he’ll boop it up in the air with his nose.”

Capitol Hill Pets | Max the kind of a circus dog on E Roy

Max, a seven-year-old Corgi Spaniel mix and Luke were waiting on coffee outside of Joe Bar after CHS got a peak at the inside of the under-construction new home of the Mexican Consulate. Max, while adorable, was only interested in meeting on his terms. Originally from California, he made his way to Seattle and is kind of a circus dog.

The Seattle Department of Transportation has a plan to optimize signals, eliminate turns, and add a “Business Access and Transit” lane to Broadway between Pine and Madison in an effort to make traffic flow more smoothly and to help speed the First Hill Streetcar through the area.

SDOT plans summer 'Broadway Corridor Streetcar Improvement Project'

The Seattle Department of Transportation has a plan to optimize signals, eliminate turns, and add a "Business Access and Transit" lane to Broadway between Pine and Madison in an effort to make traffic flow more smoothly and to help speed the First Hill Streetcar through the area.

Summit Slope Park — and its P-Patch — will get a little larger next month but some of the biggest changes from its most recent round of construction are already in place and in use.

Work wraps up on Capitol Hill's Summit Slope Park enhancements and 'pedestrianized' street

Summit Slope Park - and its P-Patch - will get a little larger next month but some of the biggest changes from its most recent round of construction are already in place and in use. The $260,000 project renovated the park at Summit and E John which first opened in 2011.

Police detained a man who tried to leave the scene of a Tuesday night Central District shooting in a ride-share getaway car, according to the SPD report on the incident.

Man shot near 25th and Yesler

Police detained a man who tried to leave the scene of a Tuesday night Central District shooting in a ride-share getaway car, according to the SPD report on the incident. SPD says the victim was shot in the stomach but suffered non-life threatening injuries in the assault reported just around 10:30 PM Tuesday: Officers were called to the 100 block of 25 Avenue South just before 10:30 p.m.

Seattle Police have released new details in what appears to have been a freak drive-by shooting incident on Capitol Hill early Sunday in which a man was hit by a bullet after hearing gunfire outside his E Denny Way apartment building

Seattle Police have released new details in what appears to have been a freak drive-by shooting incident on Capitol Hill early Sunday in which a man was hit by a bullet after hearing gunfire outside his E Denny Way apartment building CHS reported on the incident over the Presidents Day weekend but SPD has now released its report on the strange shooting in the 600 block of E Denny Way and the apartment dweller's unlucky brush with a bullet.

Mixed in with strong statements on massive social issues and a look ahead at possible economic issues on the horizon, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan focused on three pillars for new initiatives in her first State of the City address Tuesday: jobs, education, and housing affordability.

'The Impatient Mayor' - Durkan talks jobs, education, and housing in first State of the City address

Mixed in with strong statements on massive social issues and a look ahead at possible economic issues on the horizon, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan focused on three pillars for new initiatives in her first State of the City address Tuesday: jobs, education, and housing affordability.

Capitol Hill's Century Ballroom might not be the first place you'd think of to make a donation but the Odd Fellows building dancehall was host to a special blood drive Monday. The drive came as Century owner Halle Kuperman wanted a unique way to begin the ballroom's 21st year of business.

Tuesday night, Seattle City Council member Teresa Mosqueda will give over the meeting of her Housing, Health, Energy, and Workers’ Rights Committee to a special public hearing on Seattle’s housing gap:

City Council hosting 'Seattle Housing Gap' meeting

Tuesday night, Seattle City Council member Teresa Mosqueda will give over the meeting of her Housing, Health, Energy, and Workers' Rights Committee to a special public hearing on Seattle's housing gap: On Tuesday, Feb. 20, a special meeting of the Housing, Health, Energy and Workers' Rights Committee (HHEWRC) will find out.

Durkan and Taylor on a neighborhood small business tour in November (Image: CHS)

Seattle's new small business council has big Capitol Hill presence

After Amazon announced it was going to open a second headquarters, the Seattle City Council decided it needed to start meeting with the behemoth corporation, carefully orchestrating who would attend so they didn't run afoul of open meetings laws. Small businesses around town haven't yet gotten the same sort of attention.

As the meme goes, happy Presidents Day — for 44 out of the 45 presidents. You can put that fighting spirit to good use Monday night as a collection of Seattle venues including Capitol Hill’s The Woods, Bar Sue, Chop Suey, and Barboza host Protest Fest, “a celebration for a cause” featuring music and donations to some of the big nonprofits on the front lines of battle with the Trump Administration.

Capitol Hill venues part of Presidents Day 'celebration for a cause' Protest Fest

As the meme goes, happy Presidents Day - for 44 out of the 45 presidents. You can put that fighting spirit to good use Monday night as a collection of Seattle venues including Capitol Hill's The Woods, Bar Sue, Chop Suey, and Barboza host Protest Fest, "a celebration for a cause" featuring music and donations to some of the big nonprofits on the front lines of battle with the Trump Administration.

An under construction Capitol Hill microhousing development became one of the city's centers of attention Sunday as a cold winter storm blew into Seattle and tore loose scaffolding while sending a wall of plastic sheeting into a flapping fit at 12th and John.

Police were looking for two suspects from a fight reported just before a man was found stabbed in the chest in an assault near Madison and Seneca early Sunday morning. Police and Seattle Fire were at the scene across from Seattle University on the backside of Pike/Pine just before 2 AM where a man reported to be in his mid 20s had been stabbed.

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CHS Pics | This week in Capitol Hill pictures

The CHS Flickr Pool contains nearly 36,000 photographs - most of Capitol Hill images, many glorious, some technically amazing. The pool is a mix of contributions from Capitol Hill - and nearby - shutterbugs. Interested in being part of it?

At 4 AM, Portland is even closer to its bigger, richer Pacific Northwest sibling Seattle. It’s a good thing. The Salt and Straw delivery truck is coming through.

With a mix of Portland and Seattle flavors, Salt and Straw opens on Capitol Hill

At 4 AM, Portland is even closer to its bigger, richer Pacific Northwest sibling Seattle. It's a good thing. The Salt and Straw delivery truck is coming through. "Making it all in Portland, driven up every day, that was a huge decision for us," Salt and Straw's head ice cream nerd Tyler Malek tells CHS.

When I saw the headlines last month that Galbraith House, a protected landmark would be demolished, my heart sank and I had to do a double take. How does a Capitol Hill landmark get cleared for demolition? The whole point of the landmarks ordinance is to prevent demolition not to enable it.

Stephen Brenden, bartender at Liberty: “I got the piano keys, curtain, treble clef, back when I was 18 at Artful Dodger. Kellie Delaney did all the work on my arm. I played a lot of music at the time, then I got the phonograph on the back. The idea is that you’re the puppeteer of your music. I got the oak tree after that as a reminder to keep working. I got the hook on my hand to signify digging deeper.”

CHS Ink | Stephen's sleeve

Stephen Brenden, bartender at Liberty: "I got the piano keys, curtain, treble clef, back when I was 18 at Artful Dodger. Kellie Delaney did all the work on my arm. I played a lot of music at the time, then I got the phonograph on the back.

Like most things newfangled, the problem seems to be first hitting the young renters of Seattle’s University District. But judging by other cities in the West Coast archipelago of tech economy driven urban boomtowns, the early effects of the new revenue models are probably already rippling through Capitol Hill’s rental market.

Rent bidding services not a Capitol Hill problem... yet

Like most things newfangled, the problem seems to be first hitting the young renters of Seattle's University District. But judging by other cities in the West Coast archipelago of tech economy driven urban boomtowns, the early effects of the new revenue models are probably already rippling through Capitol Hill's rental market.

Banks can fly Pride flags but a group trying to create a new credit union traditional banks are not meeting the special financial needs of LGBTQ+ customers (Image: CHS)

'This is the time' - Group raising funds to form LGBTQ+ credit union

LGBTQ+ activists Andrew Tasakos and Philip Endicott are heading into pioneering territory just days away from their first major fundraiser to create a credit union they will call Equality Financial. Tasakos and Endicott started their effort to build a financial center serving LGBTQ+ communities four years ago.

City department representatives Wednesday morning voted unanimously at the February meeting of the Seattle Special Events Committee to move forward with Seattle PrideFest, the 2017 organizer of the annual Pride Saturday street festival on Broadway.

City department representatives Wednesday morning voted unanimously at the February meeting of the Seattle Special Events Committee to move forward with Seattle PrideFest, the 2017 organizer of the annual Pride Saturday street festival on Broadway.

112-year-old Capitol Hill building home to Club Z hits market for $2.15M

A building that embodies some of the histories of Capitol Hill - including its never ceasing appetite for tearing down and building back up - is up for sale. Here is the realtor's description for the $2.15 million listing for 1117 Pike: Built in 1906 this three story commercial building is for sale for the first time in almost 40 years.

Sunday, riders on the First Hill Streetcar found some new voices joining the automated messages about upcoming stops and reminders to hold the handrail.

CHS Pics | Poetry on the First Hill Streetcar

Sunday, riders on the First Hill Streetcar found some new voices joining the automated messages about upcoming stops and reminders to hold the handrail. A special Lunar New Year edition of King County Metro's Poetry on Buses program brought " Asian and American Asian local aspiring poets " to the streetcar route connecting Capitol Hill to Pioneer Square via the International District.

Part of the 2018 allocation of some $1.2 million in City Hall funding for neighborhood projects across Seattle will go to get the ball rolling on a project to make a surprising part of Capitol Hill "a more pedestrian-friendly, safer environment."

The campaign to educate and address misunderstandings about creating safe consumption spaces in Seattle and King County is taking to the streets — and highways. Last Wednesday night, a group from Yes to SCS took its message to the Denny overpass of I-5.

CHS Pics | An I-5 overpass message on safe consumption

The campaign to educate and address misunderstandings about creating safe consumption spaces in Seattle and King County is taking to the streets - and highways. Last Wednesday night, a group from Yes to SCS took its message to the Denny overpass of I-5.

Egan Orion, executive director of PrideFest Seattle Center, wants you to know that planning for PrideFest Capitol Hill’s 2018 celebration is underway and ready for more good times come Saturday, June 23rd.

Egan Orion, executive director of PrideFest Seattle Center, wants you to know that planning for PrideFest Capitol Hill's 2018 celebration is underway and ready for more good times come Saturday, June 23rd. "Plans for 2018 are well underway and we are looking forward to taking our record-breaking attendance last year and extending it this year.

Need something lovely for your Valentine? There’s a pocket of green across from Cal Anderson Park that you may not have noticed.

CHS Pics | Isla House and Flower a pocket of Pike/Pine green

Need something lovely for your Valentine? There's a pocket of green across from Cal Anderson Park that you may not have noticed. Isla House and Flower opened last year in the space formerly occupied by the Molly Moon's HQ office next to its Odd Fellows scoop shop on E Pine.

The Capitol Hill Renters Initiative, the community group formed to help give renters a voice in the city’s political and development processes, wants to spread some love this Valentine’s Day to local elected officials and community organizations about “housing justice and related issues.”

Capitol Hill renters group to send 'housing justice' Valentines to elected officials

The Capitol Hill Renters Initiative, the community group formed to help give renters a voice in the city's political and development processes, wants to spread some love this Valentine's Day to local elected officials and community organizations about "housing justice and related issues."

Development on the four, seven-story mixed-use buildings surrounding Capitol Hill’s light rail station is proceeding toward a groundbreaking this spring, possibly in late April, according to Jill Sherman. Sherman is head the project for Gerding Edlin, the Portland-based developers leading the project.

Spring groundbreaking planned for Capitol Hill Station development

Development on the four, seven-story mixed-use buildings surrounding Capitol Hill's light rail station is proceeding toward a groundbreaking this spring, possibly in late April, according to Jill Sherman. Sherman is head the project for Gerding Edlin, the Portland-based developers leading the project. The date has some community members ready to celebrate.

See something others should know about? Email CHS or call/txt (206) 399-5959. You can view recent CHS Crime coverage here. 15th/Cherry fire: Seattle Fire responded to a two-alarm fire Thursday just after 11 AM after a vacant structure at 15th and Cherry caught fire and the flames threatened to spread to neighboring buildings: Crews applied water on the fire and had it under control within 19 minutes.

The Capitol Hill skateboard shop sued by the City of Seattle over construction of a guerrilla skate park on an island in the middle of Green Lake last summer has agreed to pay $30,000 to help restore damage from the stunt.

The Capitol Hill skateboard shop sued by the City of Seattle over construction of a guerrilla skate park on an island in the middle of Green Lake last summer has agreed to pay $30,000 to help restore damage from the stunt.

As City Hall pushes housing, Sawant to hold hearing on funding for emergency shelters

District 3 representative Kshama Sawant is holding a public hearing Monday night as she calls on her cohorts in Seattle City Hall to restore funding to shelters that lost city contracts in recent rounds of budget belt tightening. "Rents are out of control in Seattle, leading to a serious spike in homelessness," Sawant writes.

Its owner says it is dilapidated, rotted in places, infested by bugs in others, and she had plans to sell it to a developer with plans to tear it down, but the 1898-built Sullivan House at 15th Ave and E Olive St. has new life after the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board voted Wednesday night 6-2 that the old house is worthy of its protections.

Capitol Hill's Sullivan House voted for landmarks protections

Its owner says it is dilapidated, rotted in places, infested by bugs in others, and she had plans to sell it to a developer with plans to tear it down, but the 1898-built Sullivan House at 15th Ave and E Olive St.

The City of Seattle will join San Francisco in retroactively applying marijuana legalization laws to past pot possession convictions, Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office announced Thursday morning.

Seattle moves to wipe away old pot possession convictions

The City of Seattle will join San Francisco in retroactively applying marijuana legalization laws to past pot possession convictions, Mayor Jenny Durkan's office announced Thursday morning. "Today, former U.S. Attorney and Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan and City Attorney Pete Holmes will announce plans for the City to move to vacate misdemeanor marijuana possession convictions prosecuted by the City before marijuana was legalized in Washington.

Stormy is the shop dog at Honed, the little jewelry store tucked into Chophouse Row between Kurt’s Farm Shop and Marmite. You can usually find Stormy sitting close to Claire, the store’s owner. Stormy is a miniature Australian Shepherd. Just over three years old, Stormy traveled with Claire from NYC and is known for giving the best hugs. “He gives full body hugs, climbs up on you, puts his arms around you,” Claire said. Don’t get too excited. though. Like anyone, he has to get you know you first.

Capitol Hill Pets | Stormy, the Capitol Hill jewelry shop dog

Stormy is the shop dog at Honed, the little jewelry store tucked into Chophouse Row between Kurt's Farm Shop and Marmite. You can usually find Stormy sitting close to Claire, the store's owner. Stormy is a miniature Australian Shepherd. Just over three years old, Stormy traveled with Claire from NYC and is known for giving the best hugs.

After being pushed out to turn her retail space into a new apartment unit in the building her shop had called home for seven years, Laurie Kearney put on a brave face when she announced last fall that her Ghost Gallery would have one last holiday season where Denny meets Summit and E Olive Way.

With a backdrop of corporate drama and shifting expansion strategies, Portland-based New Seasons tells CHS it remains committed to expanding to Seattle and opening a new grocery store in the Central District:

Despite pullback on expansion, New Seasons plans to open Central District store in 2019

With a backdrop of corporate drama and shifting expansion strategies, Portland-based New Seasons tells CHS it remains committed to expanding to Seattle and opening a new grocery store in the Central District: New Seasons remains excited to open the 23rd and Union location. Our plan is to open the store in 2019.

From Miller Park YAY-bors ￼Recently, a group of our Miller Park neighbors-dubbing themselves the "Madison-Miller Park Community" joined with other groups in filing an appeal of the City of Seattle's implementation of the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) Final Environmental Impact Statement. (FEIS).

Sitting at a conference table in the empty upstairs offices of the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute on an overcast morning, Tim Lennon breaks down the importance of Black cultural institutions for Black artists living in a 70% white city.

Tim Lennon and LANGSTON plot cultural survival in the Central District

Sitting at a conference table in the empty upstairs offices of the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute on an overcast morning, Tim Lennon breaks down the importance of Black cultural institutions for Black artists living in a 70% white city. "In Seattle, Black folks are constantly having to moderate our stories to fit into white spaces," he says.

Capitol Hill’s state Rep. Nicole Macri won’t be able to deliver an end to Washington’s ban on rent control this year. Her legislation to repeal the ban on rent regulation in the state died in committee last week in Olympia.

Legislation to end state ban on rent control off the table in Olympia

Capitol Hill's state Rep. Nicole Macri won't be able to deliver an end to Washington's ban on rent control this year. Her legislation to repeal the ban on rent regulation in the state died in committee last week in Olympia.

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